This Week in Elasticsearch - May 14, 2014

Welcome to
This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch Core

Internal: Limit the number of bytes that can be allocated to process requests (#6050, master and 1.x)

Sebastian Belczyk shared his work on benchmarking the performance of child document queries.

Graham Tackley, Director of Architecture at The Guardian News and Media, will be presenting their Elasticsearch Use Case at the upcoming DataBeat conference. You can read all about his presentation from VentureBeat, including how the VB folks will be showcasing you how to use all that data you have to make more money at DataBeat.

We've started a blog post series to let you know what Elasticsearch events are on each week. Published on Mondays, Where in the World is Elasticsearch helps you find cool talks near you. We'd love your feedback!

David Pilato helps the audience at ESPRIT JUG Day Tunisia 2014 Make Sense of their (Big) Data! (photo by the ESPRIT JUG Day team)

Slides from ESPRIT JUG Day Tunisia

Where to Find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Community Manager,
Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Australia

The wonderful Mark Walkom, Community Organizer of the Elasticsearch Sydney Meetup, will discuss How to
Get Running with Logstash on May 20th. Join Mark at Google Sydney for the May SAGE-AU Meetup at 6 PM.

Bulgaria

Canada

The fine folks at the Polyglot Unconference in Vancouver, BC are hosting their annual event on May 23-25th. The conference kicks off with Ganesh Swami presenting a
half day workshop on Getting Started with Elasticsearch.

David Pilato will host an Elasticsearch workshop at the Solutions Linux Conference on May 20th. The conference runs from May 20-21st in Paris. If you don't have time to attend David's workshop, make sure to stop by the Elasticsearch booth to say hello!

David Pilato will run a workshop on Elasticsearch and Kibana at the Breizhcamp 2014. The event runs from May 21-23rd in Rennes.

Germany

The Berlin Geek 2 Geek Meetup group will get together this Friday, May 16th to talk all about Logging. Jilles van Gurp from Linko will discuss the ELK stack. Doors open at 7 PM.

The Elasticsearch Stuttgart meetup will convene their second meeting on May 26th at 7 PM. Topics will include running Elasticsearch on AWS and Google Cloud Engine.

The Elasticsearch team will be at Berlin Buzzwords. (When we say the team, we mean most of our folks in the EU and several of our employees from the US. :)) We have many talks on the program and look forward to hosting you in the developer chill area, as well. Even better, the Berlin Elasticsearch User Group will convene a hackathon on Wednesday, May 28th. Please join us!

Switzerland

Alexander Reelsen will be speaking at Mimacom Days Zurich on June 4th. He will cover Elasticsearch - Beyond Full Text Search at 9:45 AM, directly after the conference welcome remarks.

Alexander Reelsen and Britta Weber will be speaking at the Zurich Elasticsearch Meetup on June 7th. Alex will discuss What's new in Elasticsearch and Britta will cover the Significant Terms Aggregation. Doors open at 7 PM.

United Kingdom

The London Elasticsearch User Group has already announced that there next meeting will take place on June 4th. RSVP now to save your place - this one fills up very quickly!

United States

Just announced: The Elasticsearch San Francisco Meetup group will welcome Graham Tackely, Director of Architecture at The Guardian News and Media, on May 20th. Graham will discuss using Elasticsearch for Analytics at The Guardian. Register now, because this one will fill up fast! Thanks to our friends at Salesforce for hosting us!

New meetup: The Elasticsearch Silicon Valley Meetup group will convene on May 21st at 7 PM. You'll hear from Kurt Hurtado on the Logstash team on using the ELK Stack in a DevOps Environment, plus engineers at LinkedIn will talk about how they use the ELK stack. Many thanks to LinkedIn for hosting us!

The Miami JVM Group have recalendared their Introduction to Elasticsearch for May 20th. Doors open at 7 PM, and registration is open!

Elasticsearch will have a table and some tasty treats at GOTO Chicago. The conference runs from May 20-21st. Make sure to stop by and say hello!

The Elasticsearch Chicago Meetup group will have their fifth meeting on May 22nd. If you're staying in town an extra few days for GOTO Chicago, please join us! (And if you're in town anyway, you should also totally join us!) Doors open at 6:00 PM.

Jordan Sissel will be speaking at Gluecon 2014! Make sure to catch his talk and visit the Elasticsearch booth. The conference runs from May 21-22nd in Bloomfield, Colorado.

The Washington DC Elasticsearch Meetup group will get together on May 28th at 6:30 PM. You'll hear from engineers at AOL about Moloch, their open source network forensics tool built on top of Elasticsearch.

Costin Leau will speak at Hadoop Summit North America on Real-time Analytics and Anomalies Detection using Elasticsearch, Hadoop and Storm. The conference runs from June 3-5th in San Jose, California. Costin will take the stage at 4:35 PM on June 3rd.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager,
Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also
hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: